{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050503.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050503.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050503.htm","text":"Chapter 48 [XLIV].\u2014Ambrose is Not in Agreement with Pelagius.\nI wish, indeed, that he would listen to the venerable bishop when, in the second book of his Exposition of the Gospel according to Luke, 1896 he expressly teaches us that the Lord co-operates also with our wills. \u201cYou see, therefore,\u201d says he, \u201cbecause the power of the Lord co-operates everywhere with human efforts, that no man is able to build without the Lord, no man to watch without the Lord, no man to undertake anything without the Lord. Whence the apostle thus enjoins: \u2018Whether ye eat, or whether ye drink, do all to the glory of God.\u2019\u201d 1897 You observe how the holy Ambrose takes away from men even their familiar expressions,\u2014such as, \u201cWe undertake, but God accomplishes,\u201d\u2014when he says here that \u201cno man is able to undertake anything without the Lord.\u201d To the same effect he says, in the sixth book of the same work, 1898 treating of the two debtors of a certain creditor: \u201cAccording to men\u2019s opinions, he perhaps is the greater offender who owed most. The case, however, is altered by the Lord\u2019s mercy, so that he loves the most who owes the most, if he yet obtains grace.\u201d See how the catholic doctor most plainly declares that the very love which prompts every p. 233 man to an ampler love appertains to the kindly gift of grace.\nBook ii. c. 84, on Luke iii. 22. Compare Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, below, iv. ch. 30.\n232:1897 232:1898\nBook vi. c. 25, on Luke vii. 41.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on the...","type":"page"}